Ed,Ed in Tampa wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:58 am My question to you is what do you want to do on the SS that you can't do with what you got now? I am sure everyone will have a comment but this question is directed to you alone.
I have one other question to those that comment on the 4 inch jointer. How big is big enough? What in furniture making requires you to have a jointer bigger that 4 inches? I have built furniture, built houses and did general home maintenance and I was never stopped or had to do a major work around because of having only a 4 inch jointer. So I would like to know what size jointer is big enough.
Opinions vary wildly on this forum, so my comments here are no different. IMHO the Shopsmith 4" jointer is only really useful for face jointing boards a few inches wide and at most 3' long. There are exceptions of course...I mean you can build your own infeed and outfeed tables that attach to the 4" jointer and with proper leveling you can joint boards longer than 3' (with minimal waste). However, adding infeed/outfeed tables will greatly complicate removing the jointer from a Mark V. You can remove the guard (something I don't like to do for safety reasons) and joint boards wider than a few inches. Because of its limitations I only ever use my Shopsmith jointer for edge jointing these days. Often in furniture building you need a solid wood panel, e.g. a table top or desk top. How do you propose using the Shopsmith 4" jointer to face & edge joint a 6" x 6' board, as one might commonly use in building a table top?